Interface chipsets are released from in-house use

Chipsets offer a simple and inexpensive answer for designers using Intel's new Atom processors who need to provide a legacy PCMCIA interface.

Elan Digital Systems is launching its USBPC16 and USBPC32 chipsets to the market.

The chipsets, which until now were used as a proven solution in-house, now offer a simple and inexpensive product for designers using Intel's new Atom processors and needing to provide a legacy PCMCIA interface.

Unlike other products on the market, these devices are not restricted to memory cards only.

The USBPC16 interface device is a PCMCIA card host for USB, designed for embedded applications.

It enables connection of 16bit PC Card or CompactFlash devices via USB.

The USBPC16 device can also be used to produce adapters which connect physically via a USB connector, or via a USB-type ExpressCard.

It can also be used to add a PCMCIA or CF host to a system which has USB available.

Both USBPC16 and USBPC32 are designed to interface to the host processor via a standard USB2.0 port.

Whereas the USBPC16 provides a 16bit PCMCIA interface, the USBPC32 supports CardBus 32bit applications.

As a future development Elan Digital plans to provide a single device for both 16 and 32bit applications, depending on market demand.

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